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If you assume a civilian truck with 3.50 gears and a .75 overdrive trans in top gear can go 100mph bumping off the governor......then a 6.17 geared M920 with direct drive CAT 7155 trans shouldnt be capable of any more than about 40 mph -----by calculation....but I read a post from 2009 from...
Yeah - I had you in mind when I posted.....those tires have a WAY cool factor - but not everyone can afford them or need them....I was thinking more mainstream where somebody got a M916/920 with stock tires and just wanted to not redline the tach every outing on the highway....one would think...
are the highway gear ratio carriers that expensive - or is it that they are just not available -----is it because these trucks have military specific drive axles?
a m916/920 with 3.50, 3.73 or 3.90 axle ratio would be a nice hiway truck and with low transmission gears would still have grunt...